Advancing Chip-Based Gas Composition Sensors for Efficient Planetary Exploration
Whitepaper #486 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: atmospheric/exospheric evolution; habitability and water; technology development
by MICHAEL H. WONG, Hossain Mohammad Fahad, Jing Li, Kunio Sayanagi, Paul Steffes, and Sushil Atreya
Published onMar 18, 2021
Advancing Chip-Based Gas Composition Sensors for Efficient Planetary Exploration
Chip-scale gas sensors have tiny volume, mass, and power requirements, enabling limited gas composition measurements aboard a much wider range of space missions than heavy, power-hungry mass spectrometers. This technology is needed for miniaturized atmospheric probes at the ice giants, and high-cadence atmospheric sampling at Mars.
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